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m**tcrin ol tue walclimau - bscription per year two dollars payable in for s")sc jut if not paid in advance two dollars i tfirtvcts will be charged bjkents inserted at 1 for the first and 25 cts b^ch subsequent insertion court orders charged i v erct higher than these rates a liberal deduc i -'''",â€ž those wtfo advertise by the year __, t0 the editors must be post paid . m ,â– i jli adli.v's sacred scenes and characters ell i eli was a high priest of israel possessing ai goodness of heart but wanting firmness i inurpose and energy of action ol lender feel i i fl and vacillating will be appears to me like â– ' e h would rather submit his neck lo the ex j i rtitioner'tj axe than himself inflict the blow on v everv way deserving his fate this weak i of character was exhibited in the manner which he educated his sons he allowed i heir bad passions to grow unchecked so that i win wayward children they became wicked n-n his conscence compelled him to reprove i them while he failed in energy to enforce his i ebuke this was the more culpable since as -, l,i"h priest his sons would necessarily them f eh'es i priests and hence it became him to ie that they did not minister with impure hands instead of this however he let their evil ten dencies have such scope that when they as sumed lhe sacerdotal robes they used iheir of fice for selfish ends and the gratification of ' their base passions when a man came to offer a sacrifice they appropriated a great part , 0f ji io themselves and insulted the women assembled at lhe door of the temple so gross an(j open was their conduct that the people luined with disgust from the sacrifice feeling j ibal "Â° gÂ°Â°d could come from such mercenary and brutal priests these enormities were told i i eli ; but the doting old man only said why do ye such things ? â€” nay my sons it is no good report that i hear a very safe re mark of bis and no doubt fully appreciated by hir contemptuous sons al length a man of cod came to eli and placing before him his past conduct and re counting in concise but plain language the solemn obligations thai lay upon him and lhe \ in be had incurred in noi restraining his vi t cious children pronounced the doom of utter i extermination on his family not loutr after .... j die same malediction was uttered by the lord i to samuel to which the old man bowed his bead saying " it is the lord ; let him do what seetneth him good he had done wrong and 1 h knew it and now he would meekly suffer tbe penalty of his deeds tune wore on and at length war was declar ed between ihe israelites and philistines and a hattie was fought iu which lhe former were i beaten wiih lhe loss of lour thousand men â€” ittributiug iheir deleal to the absence of the aik of the covenant ihey sent for it and hoph '' ni and phinehas the sons of eli of course ac companied it the two armies lay opposite each other awaiting each ihe onset of his an tagonist when the israelites mw the ark slowly approaching over ihe plain the mercy seat ol solid gold giiiieriug in the sunbeams in a moment despondency gave way to courage despair to triumph and there went up a shout that rocked the mountains " the ark of god ! , the ark of cod rolled in deep hebrew ac i cents from lens of thousands iÂ»f lips over the ! field of bailie sending tenor and dismay to the , hearts <â€¢!' ibe enemy Â« what shout is lhat ?" ran from lip to lip and when it was told that the ark of ibe lord was in the camp of israel they exclaimed - we are lost ? these are the j mighty gods which smote ibe etryp-ians and ! strewed lhe way irom egypt hither with the dead armies and how shall we escape ?" their i leaders however encouraged ihem saying i " be men and fight bravely will you be lhe hebrew's slave as he has been yours quit yourselves like men !" rousing their courage by such appeals they led them to the onset what a terrific sight did the battle-fields of old present nol iu solid columns flanked by | clouds of cavalary and headed by fierce batte ries did they advance slowly to the work of i death ; bul ten limes ten thousand rushed sud j denly and savagely upon each other's bosoms ! and the battle became so many fierce hand to hand contests hence it was longer protract ed and more murderous than now as these two immense hosts like two dark ! clouds closed on each other the shout of each ' drowned lor a moment lhe braying of trumpets and clash of instruments of music straight on lhe ark of god went the philistine thou | sands bearing down every thing before them israel saw it and all over the tumultuous field arose the cry " to the rescue begirt with j ten thousand foes lhe sacred emblem stood i still on the plain while that strong hebrew \ shout rolled like thunder to the heavens and j tbe countless masses went pouring forward â€” around the holy sbekinah swords dripping with blood hashed and waved spears glanced and banners rose and fell the mercy-seat loiter , ed to and fro in the doubtful fight the cheru bim shook while clouds of dust rolled over the combatants and all was rage terror and con fusion wicked but brave hophni and phine has true to iheir sacred liust fell pierced with a hundred wounds and boldest of israel's war riors sealed their fidelity with their blood â€” vain valor â€” trampled under foot borne back ward by the on-rushing thousands the defend ers of ihe aik broke and lied willi a shout that fell like a death knell ou their brave spi jits their enemies seized the ark and bore il triumphantly away paint terror andutterdes pair seized every heart â€” the shriek rang out over the din of combat â€” " the ark is lost the ark is lost .'" and that magnificent host be came a herd of fugitives sweeping hither and thither over the plain how well they lought how freely they bled we know from the fact lhat there lell of israel that day thirty thousand footmen on this same terrible day of battle and of defeat far off in lhe beaulilul plains of shiloh sat an old man by the wayside listening ea gerly to every passing lootstep bowed over his stall with pallid cheek and lip the venera ble high priest ol israel was gloomy forebod gs the ark of god the idol of his heart lhe more lhan this life had gone lo the dread ful battle-field ah ! was ihe long impending curse now lo be fulfilled and the approaching night to be the one which should close on him * withered trunk with every green branch lopped away ? each passerby tegarded the blind old man with pity and spoke cheering words which fell on unheeding ears his heart was lar away with the host of israel and theaik of god and on his dreaming excited spirit there came the noise of conflict and sounds of alarm thus he sat till evening ; and as the glorious sun of palestine stooped behind the western hills flooding the val ley below with beauty his melancholy face look an expression of intenser anxiety the gentle breeze lifted his thin silver locks from the carolina watchman j j bruner ) > " keep a check upon ali your editor esf proprietor ) rulers s new series do this kxn liberty is safe < gen'l harrieon ( volume vii number 16 salisbury n c thursday august 29 1850 his temples bul still he sat like a statue cut from stone and listened hour after hour had worn heavily away but now just as the last sunbeams fell in a shower of gold on his vener able head the sound of hasty footsteps smote his ear not the startled deer lifts his head in more eager attitude than did that blind old man when first roused from his reverie by that rapid tread which his heart foreboded loo well brought heavy tidings il was one ofthe fugi tives from lhe battle-field still crimsom with the slaughter â€” his clothes rent and dust on his head and despair in his eye and lo ! as he sped onward with the sad news a cry of dis tiess and anguish followed him eli heard it and asked its meaning the next moment tbe messenger of evil stood before him and cried m i am just from the army and all is lost is rael is fled before the philistines and her brav est lie dead on the field thy two sons hoph ni and phinehas are slain and the ark of god is taken under lhe defeat ot israel the patriarch bore firmly up : even the death of his two only sons did nol shake his aged frame ; but when it was told him that the ark of god was lakflti he fell dead to the earth all all else could be borne : the slaughter of his people his own and his sons death were no ihiiijr in comparison lo lhe honor of his god this last blow broke his heart as with a sud den trash and he died without uttering his sor row ah who can tell the tide of feeling that swept over him at the fatal news that his sins should be visited on lhe people and his sons was natural â€” lhe prophetic curse had prepar ed him for ihis ; but that the honor of god which was dearer to him than life should suf fer for his misdeeds was more than he could bear the curse had truck deeper than he had anticipated and in that day of terrible sus pense and in that moment of unspeakable an guish he received the punishment of a fond lather but erring father of a noble heart full of all gentleness and love pure and upright himself yet he did not fulfil the responsibilities of a parent his de fects were rather mental lhan moral and his ciiiue consisted in not restraining others in stead of not controlling himself all his thoughts wishes and desires were pure but he refused lo arresl the vices of his children too easy in his temper and doting in his af fections he would not see the evil he was bringing on them on the peoplebon himsell â€” thus does-the fondness of parents when al lowed fo blind their eyes to the faults of their offspring or prevent them from punishing iheir misdeeds and checking i heir passions always end in the misery of both this is the lesson intended lo be taught in this chapter of history and if must be confessed lhat it is a fearful one accompanied with tearful warnings how liule we know ofthe designs of heav en and how completely contradictory do they often appear to passing events around that ark of god â€” the symbol of love and mercy â€” and for the silent tomb of the son of god who came to preach peace on earth more blood has bpen shed than for any warlike ban ner that ever floated over a field of slaughter the frightful wars of the israelites and the millions slain in lhe crusades to deliver the holy sepulchre are strange facts in history â€” let the ordering of the one and the permis sion ofthe other are equally parts of that great plan whose origin js perfect wisdom and whose result will be the greatest good that could be accomplished the maudlin philanthropist of the present day like eli of old cannot look upon severity or death and would much rather crime should go unpunished freedom fall and justice be trampled under foot than that men should be slain these are they who would abrogate all law but that of kindness to them lhe old testament is an antiquated book andthe history of god's dealings with wicked men rather a curious relic of the barbarous past than the stern and right action of their maker and judge letter^from judge o'neal the following is an extract of a lelter from judge o'neal of s c to lhe editor of the columbia temperance advocate bearing date aug 10 1850 touching his late visit lo david son college on monday the 5th the undersigned leav ing his wife and child at chick's springs set out for davidson college where he was charg ed wiih the delivery of an address on com mencement day the 8th ol august by the eu menean society passing by spartanburg lo lincolnton thence across the catawba at beattie's ford he reached davidson college the evening of the 7th and found to his amaze ment lhal he had like to have been a day after the feast that day had been spent in address es and he had been put in the bill as one of the speakers but not being there when call ed lor as you may well suppose he did nol then speak it was however as soon as he arrived so arranged thai a novel assignment in a legal parlance was made he was to close the en lire commencement on the 8ih at 3 p m i i have been in and saw many a crowd but nev j er saw i such an one as thursday presented al davidson college ladies young and mid die-aged were there â€” and well might they vie for beauty intelligence and worth with any in the land for the whole catawba region north and south were represented you may well guess where there were so many pretty gals ihere was no scarcity of boys to these must be added the patres conscripti of all lhat region the elders and preachers ofthe pres byterians lo whom this college belongs were there in all their strength it was indeed a noble sight lo see these venerable good men gathered logeiher to watch over the school of the prophets davidson college is 19 miles norlh and west j of charlotte and about 8 miles north and east i of beattie's ford on the catawba it is beau tifully situated a grove of native oaks east of the road from charlotte and concord to slates i ville the college building two and a half i stories two societies halls of two stories and | five dormitories ol one story all of brick con j stilute the college buildings proper to these j must be added lhe president's and two profess j or's houses : a smart little village has already j grown up about the colleges the faculty of | the college consists of the president dr wil : liamson a graduate of our own college and ; three professors they bave about sixty stu dents the college has existed about ten years the class which graduated al this time con , sisted of 14 members they all spoke as lo , lows : 1 j rumple of cabarrus n c â€” the sal ! utatory addresses in latin 2 c c shive of lafayette miss â€” a phi losophical oration 3 j j blue of richmond n c â€” litera 1 ry fame j 4 e l burner of randolph counly n c j the demands of the south on her educated sons 5 j a davis of york s c the infiu i ence of accident on human destiny 6 s w douglas of chester s c the rise progress and destiny of american lib erty 7 j a gibson cabarrus n c â€” war ; and its incidents 8 t grier mecklenburg n c the true ! orator | 9 j m hutchinson mecklenburg n c | â€” the genius ol the 18th century 10 b s krider rowan n c the , tomb taketli not all away j 11 j s mcquin robeson n c the j memory of departed worth 12 w a patton mecklenburg n c j scotland 13 t a wilson mecklenburg n c the result of ambition 14 h t burke rown n c the val ediclory addresses it is not at davidson as it is with us at the south carolina college â€” the salutatory is not their first honor the valedictory as it was formerly wiih us is the first honor i wish we couid say ive_/o,change and go back al least in this respect to dr maxcy's days i was much pleased with the young men's exercises they shewed that they had been well taught and were well informed at a little after 3 p m to a crowd of audi lory i commenced my address on public speak ing and held on for better than an hour it was a subject i bad thought much about and of which as is pretty generally known i had a good deal of experience 1 therefore ventured to speak ex tempore â€” but i shall not thereby escape the labor of writing it out as a copy has been requested for publication at 7 p m lhe people again assembled lo hear me*%>n temperance 1 gave them pretty much such a brushing as lhat i had the satur day before given the people at bomar's old field they have a fine division of the sons of temperance at davidson on friday the 9th i went down to char lolte and spent the day with my good friend dr b r dunlap and his interesting family â€” at night 1 met the sons of temperance and delivered before them and the citizens of char lotte a temperance address as well as i could do to-day i came here 45 miles i must now go back i bad never been over the coun try from spartanburg to davidson to me it was a most interesting although tiresome ride it is a noble grain growing country ; and when i reaches lincolnton a beautiful manufacturing town of i suppose of 1,500 inhabitants i ask ed*myself in amazement why columbia fair i field and chester did not prolong their rail j road through york to lincolnton ? if this bad j been done and charlotte had been leit to her ; natural connection with camden all n carolina would have laid her treasures in the lap of s carolina the fields from spartanburg to david son 82 miles are literally burdend with their rich products of corn i suppose mr burton 1 of beattie's ford catawba would laugh me to scorn if i said he would only make 40 bushels of corn to the acre from his fields north of his residence what a magnificent stream is tbe catawba at beattie's ford fully 400 yards you pass over a smooth pebble-paved surface about knee deep to a horse and fancy as you mount the bank you have passed the stream ; bul in | a few moments you find you are journeying over j an island and on the other side of il you have i 100 yards more of waler of a similar kind to i pass j when i reached the river il was muddy as a | clay-hole and ifl bad been alone i should have paused until i could have got a pilot i was however accompanied by a most intelligent and estimable friend mr sumner of lincoln ton who by his delightful society made the way pleasant and my stay at davidson every way agreeable charlotte 1 had not seen in 27 yeats judge therefore my amazement when yesterday the little village of former years stood before me a town of 2 or 3000 inhabi , tants ; her streets crowded with brick buildings every where cheering on its votaries to success from charlotte lo springs the country is worn out and deserted mr springs place is as you would expect a mosi beautiful and produc live plantation farm your friend john belton o'neal author of the nashville ad < dress the charleston mercury is mistaken in the feeling which il attributes to us towards mr it barnwell rbett the author of the nashville address we have not the slightest disposi lion to carp at bis opinions nor to censure a gentleman for whom we have entertained nol oue personally unkind feeling but when he is brought up as the model of a politician whose opinions are calculated to strike at lhe union we feel it our duty to look into his patent pa pers is thisullraist the man who ought to instruct the southj the new orleans pic * ayune devotes an article to him forthe purpose of proving that he is not a recent proselyte lo disunion in consequence of the slavery ques tion but that as far back as 1833 he was an avowed disuniouisl the following from lhat paper may cast much light on lhe stream of his opinions : â€” union then mr rhett was against all compromise as a delusion aud the union as something that j must perish and ought to perish in the state convention called to repeal the nullification ordinance february 1833 though he sub milted to the necessity he did it with extreme ill grace â€” was for keeping up tbe military or ganization of lhe stale in anticipation of ano ther collision and boldly declared in that early day that he had no confidence in the union â€” we mention this as a proof that mr rhetl's dislike for the union is an ancient and deep rooted feeling and lhat be has in the most ex cited times failed to get il endorsed by the peo pie of s carolina the particular incident to which you refer has some trails that may make il interesting to recall it mr rhett who was then known as r barnwell smith â€” his name has been since changed was a member of the convention from the parish of st bartholomew when the report accompanying the ordinance repealing the ordinance of nullification was read in con vention it contained an avowal of ardent at tachment to the union mr smith rhett rose in great excitement and moved to have the phrase stricken out ae untrue as respec ted him and his constituents he denied lhat they bad or had any reason to have an â€¢' ar dent attachment to the union he said he would rather see the whole state from table rock to fort moultrie one military camp than for the state of south carolina to con tinue a member of the uuion such as il was then and had been for the last ten years â€” from 1822 to 1832 the following scene then occurred as we find it in a report of the proceedings of the convention : general james hamilton jr attempted to rise but gave lhe floor to colonel samuel war ren irom st james santee a revolutionary of ficer col warren leaning against the table and supported on his crutches said he understood ihe genlleman from st bartholomew mr r b smith to ask when he was up " where was the man in the convention who could place bis hand upon his heart and say that he was at tached lo this union ?" mr smith ardently attached mr warren i don't care what word you place there i for one can place my hand upogmy heart suiting the action to the word and can say lhal i am ardently attached to this union i fought for it and bled for it and he looked unconsciously downwards to the rem nant of his dismembered limb and will do it again whenever my services are required the whole scene was one of deep and touch ing interest mr smith's motion to strike out the declar ation of attachment to tbe union was defeated by a large majority in a convention ofthe nul lifiers ! will he have more success now ? â€” we trust not â€” we believe not there is we hope enough of the spirit of this revolutionary patriot left to make even south carolina hesi tate long before she agrees wiih mr smith rhett that the union is a failure and disun ion a right and a duly upon congress much if not all depends â€” let them give us such a settlement of these difficulties as moderate and union-loving men can approve â€” clay's bill or some other not worse â€” and the dissvlulionists open or con cealed will be awed into silence at least by the loud deep and almost universal approval of the masses of the southern people f about two months since or litlle more we had occasion to write some strictures upon a disunion pamphlet published at columbia s c in which we spoke decidedly and point j j edly against the sentiments therein expressed j that there was an almost universal dissent from and condemnation ofthe views presented in thai pamphlet by both polilical parties of this j region and of this slate we have the best rea i son to know the alias of ibis city coincided j with us and gave an editorial article iu con â– â– dem nation of the pamphlet j mr rhett now comes out wiih precisely the ; same views as those embodied in that pamph : | let and if we can judge from an article in the i j last number of that paper the alias endorses : ihem in full if those sentiments were wrong two months ago what makes them right now ? they were and are both for dissolution without : an alternative they go for it as lhe summum bonum â€” the only thing ! they do not say il the government does so or fails to do so then they go for dissolution there is no " if a bout it they go for dissolution as a thing de sired staling as iheir premises that the evils complained of cannot be remedied but by disso lution is lhat the doctrine of the alias ? â€” i will it come out with its usual boldness and advocate it until it does so it can scarcely with any good grace think the journal wrong in combatting such sentiments found where they may be or urged by whom they may be j especially when patriolic men of both parties in congress are trying lo settle matters amica bly and honorably in a different way â€” believ j ing it can still be done â€” ala journal the hon john h lumpkin late mem ber of congress from the 5th congression al district in the state of georgia in a letter to the editor of the marietta advo cate says : " i am one of those who still think tha ' the constitutional rights and honor of the southern section of the uuion may be : maintained and preserved by a just and j equitable settlement of the questions in dispute between the two secilons and i am unwilling o countenance the idea that the j rights and honor of the south cannot be main tained and the union of these states preserved when my views undergo a change and i come i lo lhe conclusion that a dissolution of the un ion is the remedy left for tbe protection of lhe south i shall renew my subscription to your paper and read it with complacency if not with pleasure never plead guilty of poverty so far as the world is concerned you had better admit that you are a scoundrel from the lafayette em repmuican the sonth in favor or the i nioo the danger threatening the american mon has never been more imminent than at the present moment the fanat icism of abolitionism and the madness of southern chivalry are not now so fearful as the sectional spirit which begins to pervade the conservative portion of con j gress it was expected by all that the j sudden death of gen taylor would bave j awed both houses of congress into silence : and have shut down the floodgates upon intemperate discussion which has so long embarrassed useful legislation and sick ened the heart of the nation by its display of puerile abstractions and unnatural hos i tility acknowledging the danger to our ! union from prolonged agitation of a ques i tion arraying the north against lhe tsouth ! in hostility men claiming to be patriots ' and pretending that they represent the 1 people continue to wrangle over imprac ! ticable schemes daily increasing alien a tion of feeling and strengthening section j al interests and sectional jealousies until , the mind can scarcely foresee the dread , ful consequences which may follow to , the country and to freedom congress is i the cause ofthe evil which threatens â€” j the people have i title sympathy with the â– fiery agitators the masses desire the set tlement of the vexed question they love the union they will maintain it south carolina may raise the black flag of dis union and call upon her sister slavehold ing states to rally under its gloomy folds under the pretence of defending southern rights but there will be no answering sig nal no gathering of enthusiastic hosts henry clau â€” the village record says â€” during the recent trying contest in the united states senate upon the com promise bill the nation has watched with eager anxiety the course of the great statesman of kentucky in his advocacy of this measure he has met the fierce de nunciation of the extremes of the north and south in the north he has been doubted perhaps vilified by men who have been wont to look upon him as the true embodiment of whig principles if we have differed from him we have not faltered in our confidence in the integrity and patriotism of the man the sun in its course through the heavens is some times obscured by a passing cloud ; but ere long it bursts out once more in un dimmed lusture â€” a proof that the fault is with the eye of the beholder ar.d not with that glorious luminary so it is with mr clay " somebody has revived the controversy about the beginning of the century by saying that mr fillmore who was born in 1800 is the first president ofthe united states who was born in the 19th century upon this another stoutly contends that the nineteenth century did not begin till january 1st 1801 and thus the old dis cussion on which so many words were wasted about six monlhs ago is in a fair way to be set agoing again it occurs to us to mention a decisive fact in regard to this computation which determines if by competent authority without reference to any principle of cal culation from one fixed year astrono mers traced the number of years back to the one in which the savior was born and the principal of the calculation assum ed was that years should be numbered as current years not years elapsed thus the christian era strictly speaking does not date from the birth of christ but was the year within which christ was born extending the calculation further back the same year after christ is coun ted as the year before christ there is no year 0 the year 1 is counted in both directions so that three years b c and three years a d are not six years but only five years when we speak of cen turies therefore since the christian era we speak of lhe results not ofa re cord but an astronomical calculation of which it is a postulate that the year is numbered as current not elapsed and that the hundred is completed until the hundredth is passed â€” picayune Â» robert fulton â€” a correspondent ofthe new york courier and enquirer speak ing of ocean steamers relates an incident in the history of steam which possesses no little interest he thus tells it : a gentlemen now an honored repre sentative in one of the congressional dis tricts new jersey visited robert fulton when he was in paris the man whose genius has made a new era in civilization occupied a small and obscure row tbe embodiment of the expansive power of steam was confined within very narrow limits like diognes in his tub fulton was almost lodged in the circumference of a cylinder on the wall of his habita tion was sketched coarsely but distinctly the plan of a steamboat there said fulton as he pointed it out to his visitor there is your image of that which will yet traverse the river and the ocean and wherever he went this image of the future he carried with him if he did not sketch it on the wall it was written in his mind he saw it as he walked a long â€” he thought of it he dreamed ol it â€” and at last be acted on it 1 recollect tbe distinct emphasis which mr clay gave to the words when con ' â€” m _â– ! versing respecting the many memorable i and wonderful men who were given to j the world in the year 17g9 " napoleon i wellington clinton fulton again the greatest of these was fulton said he i it was truly said and the world almost even now acknowledge it the bonnet carre crevasse â€” a com pany of scientific gentlemen have visited i this point lately from new orleans â€” they found the crevasse one mile and a quarter and covered with beds of sand , very liule water now running through it at the highest point the water was only 5 feet deep in the crevasse and notwith staneing the quantity of water and the rapidity with which it rushed through no channel was cut the water merely carry ing away the soil and depositing heaps of sand in its place the crescent says that thirty-four small planters were dti ven off by the water a bar twenty feet high was formed by the action of the water across tbe main river just below the cre vasse and the opinion is expressed that a permanent dam would he formed across the main river were this crevasse to be come permanent which would effectually cut off all trade to new orleans the crescent says there are g 10 negroes at work building a new levee across the crevasse cfiiaw this idtlc incident touches the heart ; a mother who was in the habit of asking her children before ihey retired at night what they had done during the day tn make idle rs happy found a young tu in daughter silent the elder ones spoke modestly of deeds and dispositions found ed on the golden rule " d onto others as you would they should do unto you still the little bright face was bowed down in silence tbe question was re peated nnd tbe dear little child said tim idly : â€” a little girl who sat by me on the bench at school had lost a baby brother all the time she studied her lesson she hid hor face in her book and cried i felt so sorry that i laid my face on the same book and cried with her then she looked up and put her arms around my neck but i do not know why she said i had done her so much good melancholy accident a sad accident occurred in prlham j niagara district on friday last which ; which caused the death oftwo persons â€” a pedler from the american side has ! been lately on a tour through the district selling lamps of a new construction which ! burn a fluid somewhat resembling turpen tine a farmer's wife in pelham pur chased one of these lamps and shortly after while pouring some of the fluid into , ' it a spark happened to touch it when it exploded with a terrific crash covering : her with the burning fluid she ran from the house but speedily fell wrapt iu flame the house was consumed also nnd a fine child destroyed who bad not time to | escape these are all the particulars we have been able to learn save that a war rant has been issued for the apprehension ofthe pedler â€” torento pat aug 11 monument to robert fulton near troy indiana is a hill which fulton was loud of visiting and at the foot pf which be and his brother kept a wood yard and sold wood to the steamers the creatures of his genius which naviga ted the ohio lie was fond of watching from this point it is said their progress and speed in the water ; and it has been selected by the admirers of his genius in the west as a fit place to erect a monu ment to his memory devilfish the columbia telegraph of saturday says ; several devil fish appeared near georgetown a lew days since and exci ted quite a sensation among the citizens of that place â€” especially the editorial and piscatorial portions tbey were pursued but not tataifl in fact we believe they came near'tahjnÂ«l their pursuers â€” cow mercial ** j what a motive a female domestic has been convicted at the lincoln assizes of attempting to poison her mistress her cnufoq^-d motive being the getting a mourning dre^g for the titmily ! she was sentenced to be hung jinmt fcial a netv renmous sect has arisen in per sia in cotimmjuei^ceuf the preachings ofa man named-bab w has written a new book to taj the pisce ol the koran â€” he is said ro\bave jjdjrewvmade several thousand prosetajjsj aml^tajbteen of these bt^zbjw as his rÂ«*rit)\vefs"'ai>^yilled have beetnwabliclv beheaded bv order of tho shab^bk ' medical use of salt â€” iu many cases of dis.j * ordered stomachs Â» tea-spoon full ol a!t i j certain cure intbe violent in'ernal aching termed cholic add a r?a spoon full nf salt lo a pint of cold water â€” drink i arid go to lied â– it is one nf lhe speediest remedies known the same avill revive a person who teem ak^ost dead from receiving a heavy l.ih in an apoplectic fit no tiui hlmi!d be lost in pouring down salt and waler if sufficient sensi bility remain to allow of swallowing if not ihe head must be sponged wiih cold water un lil the sense reium when salt will completely restore ihe_oa'ieut imm the lethargy in a fit irrwwet should be placed in warm water wiib mustard added ; ami the legs brisk ly rubbed all bandage removed from the neck and a cool aparlmenl procured if possible in many cases of severe bleeding ui the lungs and when other remedies til dr rush found iwo tea spoons full of alt coirÂ»|delely stayed the blood in toothache warm salt and nraier held o lhe pan and renewed two or three times will relieve iu most case it the gums be affecled wash the mouih wiih brtoa ; if the leeth be : covered with tartar hi>!i them twice a djy i with salt water â€” scientific american de soft words and haid arguments

m**tcrin ol tue walclimau - bscription per year two dollars payable in for s")sc jut if not paid in advance two dollars i tfirtvcts will be charged bjkents inserted at 1 for the first and 25 cts b^ch subsequent insertion court orders charged i v erct higher than these rates a liberal deduc i -'''",â€ž those wtfo advertise by the year __, t0 the editors must be post paid . m ,â– i jli adli.v's sacred scenes and characters ell i eli was a high priest of israel possessing ai goodness of heart but wanting firmness i inurpose and energy of action ol lender feel i i fl and vacillating will be appears to me like â– ' e h would rather submit his neck lo the ex j i rtitioner'tj axe than himself inflict the blow on v everv way deserving his fate this weak i of character was exhibited in the manner which he educated his sons he allowed i heir bad passions to grow unchecked so that i win wayward children they became wicked n-n his conscence compelled him to reprove i them while he failed in energy to enforce his i ebuke this was the more culpable since as -, l,i"h priest his sons would necessarily them f eh'es i priests and hence it became him to ie that they did not minister with impure hands instead of this however he let their evil ten dencies have such scope that when they as sumed lhe sacerdotal robes they used iheir of fice for selfish ends and the gratification of ' their base passions when a man came to offer a sacrifice they appropriated a great part , 0f ji io themselves and insulted the women assembled at lhe door of the temple so gross an(j open was their conduct that the people luined with disgust from the sacrifice feeling j ibal "Â° gÂ°Â°d could come from such mercenary and brutal priests these enormities were told i i eli ; but the doting old man only said why do ye such things ? â€” nay my sons it is no good report that i hear a very safe re mark of bis and no doubt fully appreciated by hir contemptuous sons al length a man of cod came to eli and placing before him his past conduct and re counting in concise but plain language the solemn obligations thai lay upon him and lhe \ in be had incurred in noi restraining his vi t cious children pronounced the doom of utter i extermination on his family not loutr after .... j die same malediction was uttered by the lord i to samuel to which the old man bowed his bead saying " it is the lord ; let him do what seetneth him good he had done wrong and 1 h knew it and now he would meekly suffer tbe penalty of his deeds tune wore on and at length war was declar ed between ihe israelites and philistines and a hattie was fought iu which lhe former were i beaten wiih lhe loss of lour thousand men â€” ittributiug iheir deleal to the absence of the aik of the covenant ihey sent for it and hoph '' ni and phinehas the sons of eli of course ac companied it the two armies lay opposite each other awaiting each ihe onset of his an tagonist when the israelites mw the ark slowly approaching over ihe plain the mercy seat ol solid gold giiiieriug in the sunbeams in a moment despondency gave way to courage despair to triumph and there went up a shout that rocked the mountains " the ark of god ! , the ark of cod rolled in deep hebrew ac i cents from lens of thousands iÂ»f lips over the ! field of bailie sending tenor and dismay to the , hearts " keep a check upon ali your editor esf proprietor ) rulers s new series do this kxn liberty is safe < gen'l harrieon ( volume vii number 16 salisbury n c thursday august 29 1850 his temples bul still he sat like a statue cut from stone and listened hour after hour had worn heavily away but now just as the last sunbeams fell in a shower of gold on his vener able head the sound of hasty footsteps smote his ear not the startled deer lifts his head in more eager attitude than did that blind old man when first roused from his reverie by that rapid tread which his heart foreboded loo well brought heavy tidings il was one ofthe fugi tives from lhe battle-field still crimsom with the slaughter â€” his clothes rent and dust on his head and despair in his eye and lo ! as he sped onward with the sad news a cry of dis tiess and anguish followed him eli heard it and asked its meaning the next moment tbe messenger of evil stood before him and cried m i am just from the army and all is lost is rael is fled before the philistines and her brav est lie dead on the field thy two sons hoph ni and phinehas are slain and the ark of god is taken under lhe defeat ot israel the patriarch bore firmly up : even the death of his two only sons did nol shake his aged frame ; but when it was told him that the ark of god was lakflti he fell dead to the earth all all else could be borne : the slaughter of his people his own and his sons death were no ihiiijr in comparison lo lhe honor of his god this last blow broke his heart as with a sud den trash and he died without uttering his sor row ah who can tell the tide of feeling that swept over him at the fatal news that his sins should be visited on lhe people and his sons was natural â€” lhe prophetic curse had prepar ed him for ihis ; but that the honor of god which was dearer to him than life should suf fer for his misdeeds was more than he could bear the curse had truck deeper than he had anticipated and in that day of terrible sus pense and in that moment of unspeakable an guish he received the punishment of a fond lather but erring father of a noble heart full of all gentleness and love pure and upright himself yet he did not fulfil the responsibilities of a parent his de fects were rather mental lhan moral and his ciiiue consisted in not restraining others in stead of not controlling himself all his thoughts wishes and desires were pure but he refused lo arresl the vices of his children too easy in his temper and doting in his af fections he would not see the evil he was bringing on them on the peoplebon himsell â€” thus does-the fondness of parents when al lowed fo blind their eyes to the faults of their offspring or prevent them from punishing iheir misdeeds and checking i heir passions always end in the misery of both this is the lesson intended lo be taught in this chapter of history and if must be confessed lhat it is a fearful one accompanied with tearful warnings how liule we know ofthe designs of heav en and how completely contradictory do they often appear to passing events around that ark of god â€” the symbol of love and mercy â€” and for the silent tomb of the son of god who came to preach peace on earth more blood has bpen shed than for any warlike ban ner that ever floated over a field of slaughter the frightful wars of the israelites and the millions slain in lhe crusades to deliver the holy sepulchre are strange facts in history â€” let the ordering of the one and the permis sion ofthe other are equally parts of that great plan whose origin js perfect wisdom and whose result will be the greatest good that could be accomplished the maudlin philanthropist of the present day like eli of old cannot look upon severity or death and would much rather crime should go unpunished freedom fall and justice be trampled under foot than that men should be slain these are they who would abrogate all law but that of kindness to them lhe old testament is an antiquated book andthe history of god's dealings with wicked men rather a curious relic of the barbarous past than the stern and right action of their maker and judge letter^from judge o'neal the following is an extract of a lelter from judge o'neal of s c to lhe editor of the columbia temperance advocate bearing date aug 10 1850 touching his late visit lo david son college on monday the 5th the undersigned leav ing his wife and child at chick's springs set out for davidson college where he was charg ed wiih the delivery of an address on com mencement day the 8th ol august by the eu menean society passing by spartanburg lo lincolnton thence across the catawba at beattie's ford he reached davidson college the evening of the 7th and found to his amaze ment lhal he had like to have been a day after the feast that day had been spent in address es and he had been put in the bill as one of the speakers but not being there when call ed lor as you may well suppose he did nol then speak it was however as soon as he arrived so arranged thai a novel assignment in a legal parlance was made he was to close the en lire commencement on the 8ih at 3 p m i i have been in and saw many a crowd but nev j er saw i such an one as thursday presented al davidson college ladies young and mid die-aged were there â€” and well might they vie for beauty intelligence and worth with any in the land for the whole catawba region north and south were represented you may well guess where there were so many pretty gals ihere was no scarcity of boys to these must be added the patres conscripti of all lhat region the elders and preachers ofthe pres byterians lo whom this college belongs were there in all their strength it was indeed a noble sight lo see these venerable good men gathered logeiher to watch over the school of the prophets davidson college is 19 miles norlh and west j of charlotte and about 8 miles north and east i of beattie's ford on the catawba it is beau tifully situated a grove of native oaks east of the road from charlotte and concord to slates i ville the college building two and a half i stories two societies halls of two stories and | five dormitories ol one story all of brick con j stilute the college buildings proper to these j must be added lhe president's and two profess j or's houses : a smart little village has already j grown up about the colleges the faculty of | the college consists of the president dr wil : liamson a graduate of our own college and ; three professors they bave about sixty stu dents the college has existed about ten years the class which graduated al this time con , sisted of 14 members they all spoke as lo , lows : 1 j rumple of cabarrus n c â€” the sal ! utatory addresses in latin 2 c c shive of lafayette miss â€” a phi losophical oration 3 j j blue of richmond n c â€” litera 1 ry fame j 4 e l burner of randolph counly n c j the demands of the south on her educated sons 5 j a davis of york s c the infiu i ence of accident on human destiny 6 s w douglas of chester s c the rise progress and destiny of american lib erty 7 j a gibson cabarrus n c â€” war ; and its incidents 8 t grier mecklenburg n c the true ! orator | 9 j m hutchinson mecklenburg n c | â€” the genius ol the 18th century 10 b s krider rowan n c the , tomb taketli not all away j 11 j s mcquin robeson n c the j memory of departed worth 12 w a patton mecklenburg n c j scotland 13 t a wilson mecklenburg n c the result of ambition 14 h t burke rown n c the val ediclory addresses it is not at davidson as it is with us at the south carolina college â€” the salutatory is not their first honor the valedictory as it was formerly wiih us is the first honor i wish we couid say ive_/o,change and go back al least in this respect to dr maxcy's days i was much pleased with the young men's exercises they shewed that they had been well taught and were well informed at a little after 3 p m to a crowd of audi lory i commenced my address on public speak ing and held on for better than an hour it was a subject i bad thought much about and of which as is pretty generally known i had a good deal of experience 1 therefore ventured to speak ex tempore â€” but i shall not thereby escape the labor of writing it out as a copy has been requested for publication at 7 p m lhe people again assembled lo hear me*%>n temperance 1 gave them pretty much such a brushing as lhat i had the satur day before given the people at bomar's old field they have a fine division of the sons of temperance at davidson on friday the 9th i went down to char lolte and spent the day with my good friend dr b r dunlap and his interesting family â€” at night 1 met the sons of temperance and delivered before them and the citizens of char lotte a temperance address as well as i could do to-day i came here 45 miles i must now go back i bad never been over the coun try from spartanburg to davidson to me it was a most interesting although tiresome ride it is a noble grain growing country ; and when i reaches lincolnton a beautiful manufacturing town of i suppose of 1,500 inhabitants i ask ed*myself in amazement why columbia fair i field and chester did not prolong their rail j road through york to lincolnton ? if this bad j been done and charlotte had been leit to her ; natural connection with camden all n carolina would have laid her treasures in the lap of s carolina the fields from spartanburg to david son 82 miles are literally burdend with their rich products of corn i suppose mr burton 1 of beattie's ford catawba would laugh me to scorn if i said he would only make 40 bushels of corn to the acre from his fields north of his residence what a magnificent stream is tbe catawba at beattie's ford fully 400 yards you pass over a smooth pebble-paved surface about knee deep to a horse and fancy as you mount the bank you have passed the stream ; bul in | a few moments you find you are journeying over j an island and on the other side of il you have i 100 yards more of waler of a similar kind to i pass j when i reached the river il was muddy as a | clay-hole and ifl bad been alone i should have paused until i could have got a pilot i was however accompanied by a most intelligent and estimable friend mr sumner of lincoln ton who by his delightful society made the way pleasant and my stay at davidson every way agreeable charlotte 1 had not seen in 27 yeats judge therefore my amazement when yesterday the little village of former years stood before me a town of 2 or 3000 inhabi , tants ; her streets crowded with brick buildings every where cheering on its votaries to success from charlotte lo springs the country is worn out and deserted mr springs place is as you would expect a mosi beautiful and produc live plantation farm your friend john belton o'neal author of the nashville ad < dress the charleston mercury is mistaken in the feeling which il attributes to us towards mr it barnwell rbett the author of the nashville address we have not the slightest disposi lion to carp at bis opinions nor to censure a gentleman for whom we have entertained nol oue personally unkind feeling but when he is brought up as the model of a politician whose opinions are calculated to strike at lhe union we feel it our duty to look into his patent pa pers is thisullraist the man who ought to instruct the southj the new orleans pic * ayune devotes an article to him forthe purpose of proving that he is not a recent proselyte lo disunion in consequence of the slavery ques tion but that as far back as 1833 he was an avowed disuniouisl the following from lhat paper may cast much light on lhe stream of his opinions : â€” union then mr rhett was against all compromise as a delusion aud the union as something that j must perish and ought to perish in the state convention called to repeal the nullification ordinance february 1833 though he sub milted to the necessity he did it with extreme ill grace â€” was for keeping up tbe military or ganization of lhe stale in anticipation of ano ther collision and boldly declared in that early day that he had no confidence in the union â€” we mention this as a proof that mr rhetl's dislike for the union is an ancient and deep rooted feeling and lhat be has in the most ex cited times failed to get il endorsed by the peo pie of s carolina the particular incident to which you refer has some trails that may make il interesting to recall it mr rhett who was then known as r barnwell smith â€” his name has been since changed was a member of the convention from the parish of st bartholomew when the report accompanying the ordinance repealing the ordinance of nullification was read in con vention it contained an avowal of ardent at tachment to the union mr smith rhett rose in great excitement and moved to have the phrase stricken out ae untrue as respec ted him and his constituents he denied lhat they bad or had any reason to have an â€¢' ar dent attachment to the union he said he would rather see the whole state from table rock to fort moultrie one military camp than for the state of south carolina to con tinue a member of the uuion such as il was then and had been for the last ten years â€” from 1822 to 1832 the following scene then occurred as we find it in a report of the proceedings of the convention : general james hamilton jr attempted to rise but gave lhe floor to colonel samuel war ren irom st james santee a revolutionary of ficer col warren leaning against the table and supported on his crutches said he understood ihe genlleman from st bartholomew mr r b smith to ask when he was up " where was the man in the convention who could place bis hand upon his heart and say that he was at tached lo this union ?" mr smith ardently attached mr warren i don't care what word you place there i for one can place my hand upogmy heart suiting the action to the word and can say lhal i am ardently attached to this union i fought for it and bled for it and he looked unconsciously downwards to the rem nant of his dismembered limb and will do it again whenever my services are required the whole scene was one of deep and touch ing interest mr smith's motion to strike out the declar ation of attachment to tbe union was defeated by a large majority in a convention ofthe nul lifiers ! will he have more success now ? â€” we trust not â€” we believe not there is we hope enough of the spirit of this revolutionary patriot left to make even south carolina hesi tate long before she agrees wiih mr smith rhett that the union is a failure and disun ion a right and a duly upon congress much if not all depends â€” let them give us such a settlement of these difficulties as moderate and union-loving men can approve â€” clay's bill or some other not worse â€” and the dissvlulionists open or con cealed will be awed into silence at least by the loud deep and almost universal approval of the masses of the southern people f about two months since or litlle more we had occasion to write some strictures upon a disunion pamphlet published at columbia s c in which we spoke decidedly and point j j edly against the sentiments therein expressed j that there was an almost universal dissent from and condemnation ofthe views presented in thai pamphlet by both polilical parties of this j region and of this slate we have the best rea i son to know the alias of ibis city coincided j with us and gave an editorial article iu con â– â– dem nation of the pamphlet j mr rhett now comes out wiih precisely the ; same views as those embodied in that pamph : | let and if we can judge from an article in the i j last number of that paper the alias endorses : ihem in full if those sentiments were wrong two months ago what makes them right now ? they were and are both for dissolution without : an alternative they go for it as lhe summum bonum â€” the only thing ! they do not say il the government does so or fails to do so then they go for dissolution there is no " if a bout it they go for dissolution as a thing de sired staling as iheir premises that the evils complained of cannot be remedied but by disso lution is lhat the doctrine of the alias ? â€” i will it come out with its usual boldness and advocate it until it does so it can scarcely with any good grace think the journal wrong in combatting such sentiments found where they may be or urged by whom they may be j especially when patriolic men of both parties in congress are trying lo settle matters amica bly and honorably in a different way â€” believ j ing it can still be done â€” ala journal the hon john h lumpkin late mem ber of congress from the 5th congression al district in the state of georgia in a letter to the editor of the marietta advo cate says : " i am one of those who still think tha ' the constitutional rights and honor of the southern section of the uuion may be : maintained and preserved by a just and j equitable settlement of the questions in dispute between the two secilons and i am unwilling o countenance the idea that the j rights and honor of the south cannot be main tained and the union of these states preserved when my views undergo a change and i come i lo lhe conclusion that a dissolution of the un ion is the remedy left for tbe protection of lhe south i shall renew my subscription to your paper and read it with complacency if not with pleasure never plead guilty of poverty so far as the world is concerned you had better admit that you are a scoundrel from the lafayette em repmuican the sonth in favor or the i nioo the danger threatening the american mon has never been more imminent than at the present moment the fanat icism of abolitionism and the madness of southern chivalry are not now so fearful as the sectional spirit which begins to pervade the conservative portion of con j gress it was expected by all that the j sudden death of gen taylor would bave j awed both houses of congress into silence : and have shut down the floodgates upon intemperate discussion which has so long embarrassed useful legislation and sick ened the heart of the nation by its display of puerile abstractions and unnatural hos i tility acknowledging the danger to our ! union from prolonged agitation of a ques i tion arraying the north against lhe tsouth ! in hostility men claiming to be patriots ' and pretending that they represent the 1 people continue to wrangle over imprac ! ticable schemes daily increasing alien a tion of feeling and strengthening section j al interests and sectional jealousies until , the mind can scarcely foresee the dread , ful consequences which may follow to , the country and to freedom congress is i the cause ofthe evil which threatens â€” j the people have i title sympathy with the â– fiery agitators the masses desire the set tlement of the vexed question they love the union they will maintain it south carolina may raise the black flag of dis union and call upon her sister slavehold ing states to rally under its gloomy folds under the pretence of defending southern rights but there will be no answering sig nal no gathering of enthusiastic hosts henry clau â€” the village record says â€” during the recent trying contest in the united states senate upon the com promise bill the nation has watched with eager anxiety the course of the great statesman of kentucky in his advocacy of this measure he has met the fierce de nunciation of the extremes of the north and south in the north he has been doubted perhaps vilified by men who have been wont to look upon him as the true embodiment of whig principles if we have differed from him we have not faltered in our confidence in the integrity and patriotism of the man the sun in its course through the heavens is some times obscured by a passing cloud ; but ere long it bursts out once more in un dimmed lusture â€” a proof that the fault is with the eye of the beholder ar.d not with that glorious luminary so it is with mr clay " somebody has revived the controversy about the beginning of the century by saying that mr fillmore who was born in 1800 is the first president ofthe united states who was born in the 19th century upon this another stoutly contends that the nineteenth century did not begin till january 1st 1801 and thus the old dis cussion on which so many words were wasted about six monlhs ago is in a fair way to be set agoing again it occurs to us to mention a decisive fact in regard to this computation which determines if by competent authority without reference to any principle of cal culation from one fixed year astrono mers traced the number of years back to the one in which the savior was born and the principal of the calculation assum ed was that years should be numbered as current years not years elapsed thus the christian era strictly speaking does not date from the birth of christ but was the year within which christ was born extending the calculation further back the same year after christ is coun ted as the year before christ there is no year 0 the year 1 is counted in both directions so that three years b c and three years a d are not six years but only five years when we speak of cen turies therefore since the christian era we speak of lhe results not ofa re cord but an astronomical calculation of which it is a postulate that the year is numbered as current not elapsed and that the hundred is completed until the hundredth is passed â€” picayune Â» robert fulton â€” a correspondent ofthe new york courier and enquirer speak ing of ocean steamers relates an incident in the history of steam which possesses no little interest he thus tells it : a gentlemen now an honored repre sentative in one of the congressional dis tricts new jersey visited robert fulton when he was in paris the man whose genius has made a new era in civilization occupied a small and obscure row tbe embodiment of the expansive power of steam was confined within very narrow limits like diognes in his tub fulton was almost lodged in the circumference of a cylinder on the wall of his habita tion was sketched coarsely but distinctly the plan of a steamboat there said fulton as he pointed it out to his visitor there is your image of that which will yet traverse the river and the ocean and wherever he went this image of the future he carried with him if he did not sketch it on the wall it was written in his mind he saw it as he walked a long â€” he thought of it he dreamed ol it â€” and at last be acted on it 1 recollect tbe distinct emphasis which mr clay gave to the words when con ' â€” m _â– ! versing respecting the many memorable i and wonderful men who were given to j the world in the year 17g9 " napoleon i wellington clinton fulton again the greatest of these was fulton said he i it was truly said and the world almost even now acknowledge it the bonnet carre crevasse â€” a com pany of scientific gentlemen have visited i this point lately from new orleans â€” they found the crevasse one mile and a quarter and covered with beds of sand , very liule water now running through it at the highest point the water was only 5 feet deep in the crevasse and notwith staneing the quantity of water and the rapidity with which it rushed through no channel was cut the water merely carry ing away the soil and depositing heaps of sand in its place the crescent says that thirty-four small planters were dti ven off by the water a bar twenty feet high was formed by the action of the water across tbe main river just below the cre vasse and the opinion is expressed that a permanent dam would he formed across the main river were this crevasse to be come permanent which would effectually cut off all trade to new orleans the crescent says there are g 10 negroes at work building a new levee across the crevasse cfiiaw this idtlc incident touches the heart ; a mother who was in the habit of asking her children before ihey retired at night what they had done during the day tn make idle rs happy found a young tu in daughter silent the elder ones spoke modestly of deeds and dispositions found ed on the golden rule " d onto others as you would they should do unto you still the little bright face was bowed down in silence tbe question was re peated nnd tbe dear little child said tim idly : â€” a little girl who sat by me on the bench at school had lost a baby brother all the time she studied her lesson she hid hor face in her book and cried i felt so sorry that i laid my face on the same book and cried with her then she looked up and put her arms around my neck but i do not know why she said i had done her so much good melancholy accident a sad accident occurred in prlham j niagara district on friday last which ; which caused the death oftwo persons â€” a pedler from the american side has ! been lately on a tour through the district selling lamps of a new construction which ! burn a fluid somewhat resembling turpen tine a farmer's wife in pelham pur chased one of these lamps and shortly after while pouring some of the fluid into , ' it a spark happened to touch it when it exploded with a terrific crash covering : her with the burning fluid she ran from the house but speedily fell wrapt iu flame the house was consumed also nnd a fine child destroyed who bad not time to | escape these are all the particulars we have been able to learn save that a war rant has been issued for the apprehension ofthe pedler â€” torento pat aug 11 monument to robert fulton near troy indiana is a hill which fulton was loud of visiting and at the foot pf which be and his brother kept a wood yard and sold wood to the steamers the creatures of his genius which naviga ted the ohio lie was fond of watching from this point it is said their progress and speed in the water ; and it has been selected by the admirers of his genius in the west as a fit place to erect a monu ment to his memory devilfish the columbia telegraph of saturday says ; several devil fish appeared near georgetown a lew days since and exci ted quite a sensation among the citizens of that place â€” especially the editorial and piscatorial portions tbey were pursued but not tataifl in fact we believe they came near'tahjnÂ«l their pursuers â€” cow mercial ** j what a motive a female domestic has been convicted at the lincoln assizes of attempting to poison her mistress her cnufoq^-d motive being the getting a mourning dre^g for the titmily ! she was sentenced to be hung jinmt fcial a netv renmous sect has arisen in per sia in cotimmjuei^ceuf the preachings ofa man named-bab w has written a new book to taj the pisce ol the koran â€” he is said ro\bave jjdjrewvmade several thousand prosetajjsj aml^tajbteen of these bt^zbjw as his rÂ«*rit)\vefs"'ai>^yilled have beetnwabliclv beheaded bv order of tho shab^bk ' medical use of salt â€” iu many cases of dis.j * ordered stomachs Â» tea-spoon full ol a!t i j certain cure intbe violent in'ernal aching termed cholic add a r?a spoon full nf salt lo a pint of cold water â€” drink i arid go to lied â– it is one nf lhe speediest remedies known the same avill revive a person who teem ak^ost dead from receiving a heavy l.ih in an apoplectic fit no tiui hlmi!d be lost in pouring down salt and waler if sufficient sensi bility remain to allow of swallowing if not ihe head must be sponged wiih cold water un lil the sense reium when salt will completely restore ihe_oa'ieut imm the lethargy in a fit irrwwet should be placed in warm water wiib mustard added ; ami the legs brisk ly rubbed all bandage removed from the neck and a cool aparlmenl procured if possible in many cases of severe bleeding ui the lungs and when other remedies til dr rush found iwo tea spoons full of alt coirÂ»|delely stayed the blood in toothache warm salt and nraier held o lhe pan and renewed two or three times will relieve iu most case it the gums be affecled wash the mouih wiih brtoa ; if the leeth be : covered with tartar hi>!i them twice a djy i with salt water â€” scientific american de soft words and haid arguments